NEW YORK — In addition to New York’s tallest office building, Santiago Calatrava's soaring transportation hub, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the World Trade Center site will also be getting a pedestrian shopping mall.

“A major street-level shopping concourse – envisioned as a way to revitalize the street life in Lower Manhattan – will take shape on the World Trade Center site’s Cortlandt Way following action by the Board of Commissioners,” the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced today.

At its regularly monthly meeting this afternoon, the Port Authority board approved an $11.1 million construction contract with T.B. Penick & Sons to build the block-long strip of retail space a block west of where the trade center’s South Tower once stood.

“Today’s action is another step toward fulfilling the Port Authority’s commitment to returning a world-class retail center to the World Trade Center,” Port Authority Chairman David Samson said in a statement. “The Cortlandt Way Concourse, along with other premiere retail space that is planned for the site, will provide an incomparable amenity for the residents of lower Manhattan and for millions of workers and visitors to the area.”

The new pedestrian mall will be among several locations on the trade center site that will house a total of 450,000 square feet of retail space, including the transportation hub for PATH and New York City Subway trains, and the base of towersPA and rtation 2, 3 and 4.

Port Authority Vice Chairman Scott Rechler said rents from the mall will help the agency, “generate needed revenue for our core transportation infrastructure.”

The Port Authority did not say what types of stores were envisioned for the space.